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Still Digging It 50 Years Later: Aurora Fossil Museum Celebrates Historic Milestone
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The museum traces its beginnings to phosphate discovered on the southern shores of the Pamlico in the 1950s. In 1965, Texas Gulf Sulfur Company established a mining operation in the area in 1965 and in the process noticed corals which they found strange in eastern North Carolina. Requesting assistance from the Smithsonian, that institution identified the mining area as one of the richest fossil locations on the Atlantic coast. In cooperation with the town of Aurora, a museum was established in 1976.
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